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Anthony Roth Costanzo stands on the stage at the Academy of Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera Philadelphia’s upcoming season will feature a comedy about a president who defies electoral defeat to become a dictator

George and Ira Gershwin’s “Let ‘Em Eat Cake” flopped on Broadway in 1933. Opera Philadelphia will revive it for the midterm election season.

5 months ago

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The National Liberty Museum exhibiting a collection of sports memorabilia
History
Philadelphia
Sports
Visual Arts

Philly’s Liberty Museum shows what the World Cup and the First Amendment have in common

“In the Arena” demonstrates how sports exemplify the U.S. Constitution’s Freedom of Assembly.

5 months ago

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The marble floor of Hamilton Hall
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum has a new $4.2M marble floor. The old marble is making a comeback in Center City restaurants

It took 10 years for the children's museum to raise the money to replace its 19th-century marble floors.

5 months ago

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Emma Copley Eisenberg (photo credit: Kenzi Crash)
Studio 2
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Social Justice

Studio 2 Extra: Philly author Emma Copley Eisenberg

Studio 2 co-host Avi Wolfman-Arent sits down with Eisenberg to hear why bodies deserve more lines in literature and why "fat" is often the best descriptor.

Air Date: April 24, 2026 1:30 pm

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Trombonist Brent White performs
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Politics
Visual Arts

Philadelphia budget 2026: Isaiah Thomas, Rue Landau want $6 million allocated for arts

With funding turbulence at the federal and state levels, elected officials are calling for the city to pick up some of the slack.

5 months ago

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Studio 2
History

Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents

Linguist Valerie Fridland guides us through the history of accents and why certain ones stick while others disappear, and what they reveal about power, identity and belonging.

Air Date: April 24, 2026 12:00 pm

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Pittsburgh Penguins' Bryan Rust (17) collides with Philadelphia Flyers' Dan Vladar (80) during the third period of Game 3 in the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey playoffs Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia
Sports

Flyers move to brink of sweep of Penguins with Game 3 win as Vladar shakes off injury in net

It sure seemed like the old days of the Broad Street Bullies for the Flyers.

5 months ago

The Penn Relays, an iconic track and field competition
Things To Do
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Delaware
New Jersey
Philadelphia

Penn Relays, Philly Black Pride and Flyers and Sixers in the playoffs in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

April 23–26: The Homey Awards in Delaware, a jazz festival in Philly and Florence + The Machine in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

5 months ago

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ROcky statue
Philadelphia
Sports
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

‘Never in a million years.’ The Rocky statue’s long, unlikely road to acceptance inside the Art Museum

Rocky is headlining the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition on monuments, after two decades of drawing millions of tourists to the outside of the building.

5 months ago

a concert in Doylestown
Music
Pennsylvania

Doylestown free concert series to showcase a ‘diverse palette of voices’ throughout May

The series, known as Concert at the Commons, is scheduled every Thursday in May at Broad Commons Park in Doylestown.

5 months ago

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Prints on display for the Mural Arts' project, ''Printmaking by the People.''
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Philadelphians rewrite the Declarations of Independence in Mural Arts printmaking project

More than 1,000 people created personal Declarations of Independence, now on view at the Free Library in a major semiquincentennial civic art project.

5 months ago

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Bread on a plate
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

The Atlantic thinks Parc has the best free restaurant bread in America. Is it even the best in Philly?

We’re asking readers about their favorite complimentary bread in the city and why.

5 months ago

a mantlepiece with a small SEPTA train
History
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

In Philly, artists are using ‘Radical Americana’ to challenge patriotic nostalgia

The citywide project asked 45 artists to exhibit new work rooted in craft heritage for America's 250th anniversary.

5 months ago

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Philly-based artist Meija Moreno (left) and cast members
Philadelphia
TV
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

Meija Moreno moved to Philly to be an artist. Now, she’s caught up in the biggest television scandal of the year

Moreno talks about meeting West Wilson, her viral “hair ties” and navigating Summer House drama on Bravo.

5 months ago

Raye performing
Things To Do
Community Events
Delaware
New Jersey
Philadelphia

Things to do in and around Philly: Raye at The Met, Philly Film Society’s SpringFest, ‘1776 the Musical’ and more

April 16–19: ‘Radium Girls’ in Delaware, a wine-tasting event in Philly and the Green Festival in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

5 months ago

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